Major software development standards mandate the establishment of trace links among software artifacts such as requirements, architectural elements, or source code without explici...
Alexander Egyed, Stefan Biffl, Matthias Heindl, Pa...
Abstract. FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) distributions use dependencies and package managers to maintain huge collections of packages and their installations; recent research...
The lack of lightweight communication channels and other technical and sociological difficulties make it hard for new members of a non-collocated software development team to lea...
Davor Cubranic, Gail C. Murphy, Janice Singer, Kel...
of modelling abstractions to map from items in the real-world to objects in the computational domain is oth for the effective implementation of abstract problem solutions and for ...
Mariusz Nowostawski, Geoff Bush, Martin K. Purvis,...
We describe the activities of the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) group at Microsoft Research. We highlight our research themes and activities using examples from our researc...
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappa...